7729377

Method for Scheduling Distributed Virtual Resource Blocks

PublishedJune 1, 2010
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1. A method for distributively mapping virtual resource blocks (VRBs) to physical resource blocks (PRBs) in a wireless mobile communication system, the method comprising: interleaving by a base station, indexes of the VRBs, of a downlink data packet using a block interleaver; mapping the interleaved indexes onto a first slot and a second slot of a subframe of a downlink data packet with a gap for distribution; and transmitting the mapped data packet to a user equipment, wherein an index o 1,d of one of the PRBs on the first slot mapped to a given index d of one of the VRBs is set to p 1,d +N offset if a temporary index p 1,d of one of the PRBs on the first slot mapped to the index d by the block interleaver is larger than N DVRB /2, and an index o 2,d of the one of the PRBs on the second slot mapped to the index d is set to p 2,d +N offset if a temporary index p 2,d of one of the PRBs on the second slot mapped to the index d by the block interleaver is larger than N DVRB /2, wherein N DVRB is a number of the VRBs and N offset is a predetermined integer, and wherein d has an integer value in a range from 0 to N DVRB −1, and p 1,d , p 2,d , o 1,d , and o 2,d have an integer value in a range from 0 to N PRB −1, N PRB being a number of the PRBs in the wireless mobile communication system, wherein the wireless mobile communication system supports a resource allocation scheme.

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2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein N offset =N PRB −N DVRB .

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3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein N offset =N gap −N DVRB /2.

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4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the temporary index P 1,d is given in expression (1), and the temporary index p 2,d is given in expression (2), wherein expression ⁢ ⁢ ( 1 ) ⁢ ⁢ is p 1 , d = { p 1 , d ′ , when ⁢ ⁢ N null = 0 ⁢ ⁢ or ⁢ ( d < N DVRB - N null ⁢ ⁢ and mod ⁢ ( d , C ) < 2 ) ⁢ p 1 , d ′ - N null / 2 , when ⁢ ⁢ N null ≠ 0 ⁢ ⁢ and ( d < N DVRB - N null ⁢ ⁢ and mod ⁢ ( d , C ) ≥ 2 ) ⁢ ⁢ ⁢ where ⁢ ⁢ p 1 , d ′ = mod ⁡ ( d , C ) · R + ⌊ d / C ⌋ ⁢ ⁢ p 1 , d = { p 1 , d ′ - R + N null / 2 , when ⁢ ⁢ N null ≠ 0 ⁢ ⁢ and ⁢ ( d ≥ N DVRB - N null ⁢ ⁢ and mod ⁢ ( d , C / 2 ) = 0 ) ⁢ p 1 , d ′ - R , when ⁢ ⁢ N null ≠ 0 ⁢ ⁢ and ⁢ ( d ≥ N DVRB - N null ⁢ ⁢ and mod ⁢ ( d , C / 2 ) = 1 ) ⁢ ⁢ ⁢ where ⁢ ⁢ p 1 , d ′ = mod ⁡ ( d , C / 2 ) · 2 ⁢ ⁢ R + ⌊ 2 ⁢ ⁢ d / C ⌋ ; and ⁢ ⁢ expression ⁢ ⁢ ( 2 ) ⁢ ⁢ is ⁢ ⁢ p 2 , d = mod ⁡ ( p 1 , d + N DVRB / 2 , N DVRB ) where R is a number of rows of the block interleaver, C is a number of columns of the block interleaver, N DVRB is a number of resource blocks used for the VRBs, and ‘mod’ means a modulo operation.

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5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wireless mobile communication system supports a resource allocation scheme in which one resource block group (RBG) including consecutive PRBs is indicated by one bit, and wherein the gap for the distribution is a multiple of a square of a number of the consecutive PRBs constituting the RBG.

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7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a degree of the block interleaver is equal to a diversity order (N DivOrder ) determined by the distribution.

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8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wireless mobile communication system supports a resource allocation scheme in which one resource block group (RBG) including consecutive PRBs is indicated by one bit, and wherein the number of the VRBs (N DVRB ) is a multiple of a value obtained by multiplying a square of the number of the consecutive PRBs constituting the RBG (M RBG 2 ) by a number of the PRBs to which one VRB is mapped (N D ).

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10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the number of the VRBs (N DVRB ) is given as expression (3) when nulls are input to the block interleaver, wherein expression (3) is N DVRB =min(N PRB −N gap , N gap )·2.

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11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the diversity order (N DivOrder ) is an integer multiple of a number of PRBs to which one VRB is mapped (N D ).

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12. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving a resource indication value (RIV) at a mobile station of the wireless mobile communication system, wherein the RIV is used to determine the indexes of the VRBs and indicates a start index number of the VRBs and a length of the VRBs.

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13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the gap is 0 when N DVRB is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value (M th ).

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14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein N DVRB is an integer multiple of a diversity order (N DivOrder ) determined by the distribution.

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June 1, 2010

Inventors

Dong Youn Seo
Eun Sun Kim
Bong Hoe Kim
Joon Kui Ahn

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